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Nope, johnno, message tracking and logs as I described above are either native to the Exchange install or part of the OS. Add in spam and malware SMTP gateway scanners, other content filtering tools, and you have a pretty deep look into the activity in your email environment.

The link you supplied requires SQL server, and leverages the database to help track statistics. I don't know how deep it goes since I haven't used this particular tool. If you add that to your environment mix, it just makes it harder and harder for naughty little kiddies to mis-behave in email.

... activity from a user account ...

The wording of the question leaves things a little confused. I suspect the question is: "can the system admins track my email to and from &lt;so and so&gt;?"

I agree that the basic answer is yes, although how you would go about it will probably depend on what you are trying to achieve.

For example, not all monitoring is to enforce AUPs or for security reasons.

Resource management, SLAs, productivity and even personnel management are other considerations.

For example, in some environments, the number of e-mails handled would be considered a measure of productivity. Conversely, if someone is having to deal with a disproportionate amount then they are probably under stress, are being over tasked or lack delegation skills.

Right on that, nihil. The SA isn't just going to track an email stream for grins and giggles. It takes time and effort. There are already way too many other things competing for their attention. Just ask MLF.

Automating the process makes it much simpler, granted, when you can get and afford the tools to do so.

In my previous life, when I did go looking and tracing, it was with a vengence because it was never at a convenient time and took me away from the fun things.